ISBN: 9780511994456

This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception o… Mehr…

This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such that we tend to think of law as nothing other than a species of politics. Thus viewed, the activity of unelected, common law judges appears to be an encroachment on the space of democracy. However, Kunal M. Parker shows that the world of the nineteenth century looked rather different. Democracy was itself constrained by a sense that history possessed a logic, meaning and direction that democracy could not contravene. In such a world, far from law being seen in opposition to democracy, it was possible to argue that law - specifically, the common law - did a better job than democracy of guiding America along history's path. Digital Content>E-books>U.S. History>U.S. History>U.S. History, Cambridge University Press Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780511994456

This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception o… Mehr…

This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such th This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such th, Cambridge University Press<

2011, ISBN: 9780511994456

Legal Thought before Modernism, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, [PU: Cambridge University Press], [ED: 1], Cambridge University Press, 2011

ISBN: 9780511994456

Common Law History and Democracy in America 1790-1900 - Legal Thought before Modernism: ab 22.49 € Medien > Bücher > E-books, [PU: Cambridge University Press]

ISBN: 9780511994456

Common Law History and Democracy in America 1790-1900 ab 27.99 EURO Legal Thought before Modernism Medien > Bücher, [PU: Cambridge University Press]